Whelen FL0TAAAA User Manual

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ENGINEERING COMPANY INC.

51 Winthrop Road
Chester, Connecticut 06412-0684

Towman’s™ Freedom™ Lightbar

Installation Guide:

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Safety First

This document provides all the necessary information to allow your Whelen product to be properly and safely installed.
Before beginning the installation and/or operation of your new product, the installation technician and operator must
read this manual completely. Important information is contained herein that could prevent serious injury or damage.

• Proper installation of this product requires the installer to have a good understanding of automotive electronics,
systems and procedures.

• If mounting this product requires drilling holes, the installer MUST be sure that no vehicle components or other
vital parts could be damaged by the drilling process. Check both sides of the mounting surface before drilling
begins. Also de-burr any holes and remove any metal shards or remnants. Install grommets into all wire
passage holes.

• If this manual states that this product may be mounted with suction cups, magnets, tape or Velcro®, clean the
mounting surface with a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and water and dry thoroughly.

• Do not install this product or route any wires in the deployment area of your air bag. Equipment mounted or
located in the air bag deployment area will damage or reduce the effectiveness of the air bag, or become a
projectile that could cause serious personal injury or death. Refer to your vehicle owner’s manual for the air bag
deployment area. The User/Installer assumes full responsibility to determine proper mounting location, based
on providing ultimate safety to all passengers inside the vehicle.

• For this product to operate at optimum efficiency, a good electrical connection to chassis ground must be
made. The recommended procedure requires the product ground wire to be connected directly to the NEGATIVE
(-) battery post.

• If this product uses a remote device to activate or control this product, make sure that this control is located in
an area that allows both the vehicle and the control to be operated safely in any driving condition.

• Do not attempt to activate or control this device in a hazardous driving situation.

• This product contains either strobe light(s), halogen light(s), high-intensity LEDs or a combination of these
lights. Do not stare directly into these lights. Momentary blindness and/or eye damage could result.

• Use only soap and water to clean the outer lens. Use of other chemicals could result in premature lens cracking
(crazing) and discoloration. Lenses in this condition have significantly reduced effectiveness and should be
replaced immediately. Inspect and operate this product regularly to confirm its proper operation and mounting
condition. Do not use a pressure washer to clean this product.

• It is recommended that these instructions be stored in a safe place and referred to when performing
maintenance and/or reinstallation of this product.

• FAILURE TO FOLLOW THESE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS COULD RESULT IN DAMAGE TO
THE PRODUCT OR VEHICLE AND/OR SERIOUS INJURY TO YOU AND YOUR PASSENGERS!

Automotive: Lightbars

For warranty information regarding this product, visit www.whelen.com/warranty

©2005 Whelen Engineering Company Inc.
Form No.13991F (111809)

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Mounting your Lightbar:

Mounting

Surface

Permanent mounting of this product will require drilling. It is absolutely necessary
to make sure that no other vehicle components could be damaged by this process.
Check both sides of the mounting surface before starting. If damage is likely, select
a different mounting location.

This lightbar mounts with 3 bolts, affixed to mounting plates that slide into the track on the
bottom of the lightbar base. Figures 1 and 1a show how the slide bolt assembly slides into
your lightbars base and mounts onto the vehicle. Use an appropriately sized drill bit sized
for a 1/2 - 13 X 2” bolt, to drill the mounting holes. When you secure the slide bolts to the
bottom of the lightbar base, be sure the outside bolts are spaced far enough apart and
near enough to the ends of the vehicle roof.

Operation:

Operation of the function wires in the cables exiting the lightbar is outlined below.
Applying +12 volts DC to these wires will activate their function. Refer to the parts
illustration for fusing information. Any unused wire should be capped off.

LED CABLE: GREEN: Activates the FRONT LED’s.
3 conductor WHITE: Activates the REAR LED’s.

TAKEDOWN/ALLEY:
6 conductor: WHITE: Activates (Steady) TAKEDOWNS and WORKLIGHTS

GREEN: Activates the PASSENGER SIDE ALLEY LIGHTS
RED: Activates the DRIVER SIDE ALLEY LIGHTS
BLUE: Activates the TAKEDOWNS in FLASH MODE

BRAKE-TAIL: WHITE: Activates the TAIL LIGHTS
4 conductor GREEN: Activates the PASSENGER SIDE BRAKE LIGHT

RED: Activates the DRIVER SIDE BRAKE LIGHT

SCANLOCK: RED: Scan-Lock™ Flash pattern selection for the FRONT LED’s
3 conductor GREEN: Scan-Lock™ Flash pattern selection for the REAR LED’s

Fig. 1 Slide Bolt Mount:

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1. Remove one lightbar endcap.

Insert slide bolts into base,

2.

Mounting

Mounting

Surface

Surface

Slide Bolt
Mounting

slide them across to their mounting
position and secure with set screws

Position the lightbar onto the

3.

vehicle and mark the four bolt hole
locations on the mounting surface

Drill the four holes with an appropriately sized drill bit4.

Replace end cap and insert bolts into their 4 mounting

5.

holes and secure the lightbar with supplied hardware

Slide bolt slides

into the base here.

Tighten both set

screws to secure

slide bolt to base

Fig. 1a Inserting
Slide Bolt into
Base

Scan-Lock™ / Flash Pattern Selection:

The RED wire is the Scan-Lock™ wire for FRONT LED’s. The GREEN wire is the Scan-Lock™ wire for REAR LED’s. LED’s must be on
for Scan-Lock™ to work.

TO CHANGE PATTERNS: To cycle forward to the next pattern: Apply +VBAT to the “Scan-Lock™ wire for less than 1 second and
release. To cycle back to the previous pattern: Apply +VBAT to the Scan-Lock™ wire for more than 1 second and release.

TO CHANGE THE DEFAULT PATTERN: When the desired pattern is active, allow it to run for
more than 5 seconds. The lighthead will now display this pattern when activated.

TO RESTORE THE FACTORY DEFAULT PATTERN: With power to the lightheads off, apply
+VBAT to the Scan-Lock™ wire. While still applying +VBAT to the “Scan-Lock™ wire, turn
power to the lightheads back on. The factory default pattern should now be displayed.

IMPORTANT WARNING!

CAUTION! DO NOT LOOK DIRECTLY AT
THESE LED’S WHILE THEY ARE ON.
MOMENTARY BLINDNESS AND/OR EYE
DAMAGE COULD RESULT!

A Normally Open momentary switch can be used to control Scan-Lock™

WARNING! All Customer supplied wires that connect to the positive terminal of the battery must be sized to supply at least
125% of the maximum operating current and FUSED

at the battery to carry that load. DO NOT USE CIRCUIT BREAKERS WITH

THIS PRODUCT!

IMPORTANT! It is the responsibility of the installation technician to make sure that the installation and operation of this product
will not interfere with or compromise the operation or efficiency of any vehicle equipment! Before returning the vehicle to
active service, visually confirm the proper operation of this product, as well as all vehicle components/equipment.

Available Flash Patterns:

1. SignalAlert™ 3 cycles of 1A and 3 cycles of 1S

2. SignalAlert™ 1 Alternates with 2

3. SignalAlert™ 1 & 2 Simultaneous

4. CometFlash® 1 Alternates with 2

5. CometFlash® 1 & 2 Simultaneous

6. CometFlash® 3 cycles of 2A and 3 cycles of 2S

7. DoubleFlash 1 Alternates with 2

8. DoubleFlash 1 & 2 Simultaneous

9. DoubleFlash 3 cycles of 3A and 3 cycles of 3S

10. 10.SingleFlash 1 Alternates with 2

11. SingleFlash 1 & 2 Simultaneous

12. SingleFlash 3 cycles of 4A and 3 cycles of 4S

13. SteadyFlash 1 & 2 Steady / 3 & 4 SingleFlash

14. Steady 1, 2, 3 & 4 Steady

15. Steady: Full power 1 sec., then slow ramp to 40

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